Lord Buckley broke down a barrier that is exceptionally hard to break down.
He broke down the barrier between the Sacred and the Profane.
Several of his 'hipsemantic' monologues, once you begin to study them, are fascinating expressions of Christian ideas, but expressed in the terms of an offbeat and wacky nightclub personality. I don't know of anything like them.
I read, sitting on my white azz, Lord Buckley's riff on "Quo Vadis", entitled "Nero".
Once again, My Lords and Ladies of the Court, I give you Richard Myrle Buckley , together with his affecting 'familiar', OO-Bop-A-Lap.